Walter Zimmermann (composer)

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Walter Zimmermann (born April 15, 1949 in Schwabach ) is a German composer , author and university professor.

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Zimmermann learned the piano , violin and oboe at an early age . He began to compose at the age of twelve, attended the humanistic grammar school in Fürth and studied piano with Ernst Gröschel . From 1968 to 1970 he was a pianist in the ars nova ensemble in Nuremberg and began studying composition with Werner Heider . In 1970 he moved to the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht and worked at the ethnological center Jaap-Kunst in Amsterdam until 1973 .

In 1974 he went to America, where he studied computer music in Hamilton . His first book Desert Plants: Conversations with 23 American musicians was published here in 1976 , followed by recordings of folk music in the Siwa oasis , in a ghetto in Pittsburgh , and in an Indian reservation in Montana . When he returned to Germany, he held concerts in the Beginner Studio , a former factory building in Cologne. For his work he received the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Scholarship of the City of Cologne in 1980 and the first Ensemblia Mönchengladbach Prize in 1981 . After he published his second book Insel Musik in 1981 , he worked as a lecturer in Darmstadt in 1982 and 1984 and was also active as a composition teacher at the Conservatoire de Liège from 1980 to 1984 .

After his third book Morton Feldman Essays was published in 1985 , he moved to Rome via Berlin . Here he received the Prix ​​Italia in 1988 for the work The Blind and in the same year accepted a teaching position in The Hague at the Koninglijk Conservatorium . At the same time he was active in Frankfurt and received the Schneider Schott Music Prize in Mainz in 1989 . From 1990 to 1992 he worked as a composition teacher in Karlsruhe and during this time organized the Anarchic Harmony festival in Frankfurt with Stefan Schädler on the occasion of John Cage's 80th birthday .

Since 1993 he has been Professor of Composition at the Berlin University of the Arts , since 1996 also lecturer at June in Buffalo (USA) and in 2003 visiting professor (one academic year) at ESMUC (University of Music) Barcelona . In 2005 he also took up the position of Lecturer Julliard School at Columbia University in New York. He is also a lecturer at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain, a lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Beijing Central Conservatory in 2006 and a member of the Academy of Arts since 2006 . In 2007 he became composer in residence at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston . In 2009 he was appointed honorary professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CCOM website
  2. ↑ Villa Massimo | Scholarships. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, author and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwabach